About 240 million people were under cold weather advisories and winter storm warnings Saturday as a powerful system threatened to bring howling winds, flooding and heavy snow to the East Coast as the region continued to dig out from last week's frigid winter weather .

In Oxford, where the winter storm devastated the city and left many without power, recovery is being led by the people who live there.

Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East will continue in the coming days, with subfreezing temperatures reaching into Florida and a potential blizzard threatening the Atlantic coast.

That uncertainty is not unusual at this early stage. Forecasters rely on a blend of weather models — computer simulations used to predict future conditions — and they are more confident in a forecast when most of those models are consistent with one another. The closer the storm is, the more confident forecasters become.

A week after a historic winter storm paralyzed communities across the Southeast, Mississippi officials are still racing to keep residents safe, warm and fed.

Six people have died in Shelby County from the winter storm that hit the area in late January. According to a press release from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, Shelby County leads the state with the most weather-related deaths from the January winter storm, with six. It was not immediately clear exactly how the deaths occurred.

Maps show where the next blast of Arctic air and a potential winter storm are expected to travel this weekend, according to the latest forecast models.

BUXTON, N.C. (WTVD) -- Another oceanfront home in Buxton collapsed into the ocean on Sunday morning during the winter storm that struck North Carolina. The National Park Service at Cape Hatteras said the house, located on Tower Circle Road, was unoccupied when it fell, and no injuries were reported.